Nicki Minaj Quotes

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

I'm trying to have some control over my image.

My public image is none of my business.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

I don't want a 'good' image.

I never said, I am just a beauty queen or just an actress.

I'm really not about changing my image.

I'm very aware of my image and the perception of me.

I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'

People like to define you through what they've seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don't sit around thinking, 'I've been a bumbling suitor all my life.'

In terms of what people think about me, the truth of the matter is, I guess I care to a certain extent, but not enough to try to go out in the public and plead for some kind of new understanding of me.

People ask, "What do you think about being called Puff Mommy?" Puff's a very successful young man, so I don't have a problem if that's what they wanna call me. If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.

I think I'm a sober person. I think the press tries to make you into something a little bit different. In my case, a little bit of a wild man. I'm not. I'm actually not. I'm a very sober person.

I'm not Tom Cruise. I don't have to look that good. I'm always going to have a problem because I'm thought of as someone edgy, but I'm not. I'm a cupcake.

In the beginning, yes. I didn't like it because I wanted people to know me by Gabriel Iglesias, not by Fluffy.

I've never been able to control my public image.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.